Well it's like any other business that runs on electricity. AWS converts electricity directly into profit. They provide a service for paying customers, just like a miner does. I'm sure many datacenters are located in places where electricity is cheap, hell I bet some datacenters get it even cheaper with lobbying.
Can you list an example of AWS building a datacenter, in secret, in a location with subsidized power? I GUARANTEE YOU Amazon lets the local municipality know when they're building a new datacenter and they aren't getting subsidized rates.
Gaming is also consuming more energy than the daily lives of a whole country __Combined__. Entertainment is a good thing, but watching a movie consumes a lot less resources than playing games so why are games acceptable? What about VR? VR uses a lot of GPU computations for something a small fraction of people use. Surely people playing VR could use some other form of entertainment that is less resource consuming.
Or then we let people use their own resources the way they see fit.
> Executives under Frazzini initially rejected charges that New World, an Amazon game that would ask players to colonize a mythical land and murder inhabitants who bear a striking resemblance to Native Americans, was racist. They relented after Amazon hired a tribal consultant who found that the portrayal was indeed offensive
You seem to have missed that part of your own quote. They're not saying the idea was racist, they're saying the implementation was racist. No doubt is was portraying the natives as wild savages which is indeed racist.
Is it impossible for a game to be racist? If not, how do you know this instance wasn’t racist? Do you know the game better than the people working on it?
This is not people on twitter complaining, these were actual professionals who were a part of the project, I see nothing ridiculous about it.
To be fair, I don't expect vegan burgers to mimic meat any more than I expect chicken to taste of beef. I just need it to taste good and have good texture, staying together when in the pan or on the grill and do well in the bun. I also can't quite remember what most meat tastes like, honestly.
I would imagine it's not a joke. His comment is factual if you interpret "women" and "men" as a population and in context of chess performance(not in general).
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I did find a bug in svelte but not sure if it was worth a PR. I cloned their repo, tracked down the issue, learned how their codebase worked, fixed it, wrote some tests for it, wrote an elaborate issue and pull request explaining the issue and nuances. It took around 4-5 hours over a couple of days even though the fix was a one line diff. The PR was ignored for 6 months. I was considering bumping it but then I read in another PR that it's bad manners and just decided to remove it instead.
There was nothing inherently wrong with Mt. Gox as a place to buy BTC. It was trading it and storing it on Gox that got you burned. I lost 0.6 BTC because I was planning on margin trading some but that was only a fraction of my holdings at the time.
Cherry picking much? Returns for anything looks awesome if you are comparing it to its bottom. BTC is up 15% this year which is good but nothing to shout about.
